Macklemore says he's a magician now, releasing magic rap album

Macklemore has announced that he is releasing the "first ever magic rap album."

Macklemore has announced that he is releasing the "first ever magic rap album."

Photo: Macklemore Via Instagram

Photo: Macklemore Via Instagram

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Macklemore has announced that he is releasing the "first ever magic rap album."

Macklemore has announced that he is releasing the "first ever magic rap album."

Photo: Macklemore Via Instagram

Macklemore says he's a magician now, releasing magic rap album

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Hey, remember Macklemore? The Seattle rapper whose goofy ode to looking incredible in your granddad's clothes, "Thrift Shop," was perhaps the biggest teen anthem of 2012? The guy who realized he definitely didn't deserve a Grammy over Kendrick Lamar and publicly apologized for it? The straight man who released a pro-LGBTQ anthem that spends half the lyrics reaffirming that he is not gay?

Well, he's back, in a fittingly corny way: Macklemore announced via an Instagram post that he is releasing the "first ever Magic Rap album."

"I’ve been working hard on this magic s—," he wrote, captioning a photo of himself in an elaborate wizard costume. In a statement to HipHopDX, he claims that he's "been doing magic for about 2.5 years now."

"A lot of people are already calling me mid-pack David Blaine," he said. "One afternoon in my magic shed, I was doing some rabbit work when the idea hit me — ‘What if I combined my natural ability of wizardry and used music to genre blend!?’ I ran it by the local magician community in Seattle and one out of two of them agreed — it was a great idea."

In the Instagram post, Macklemore also claims that the person who can think of the best name for his magic rap album in the comments will receive a free dog. He gets to name the dog, though. Is this all a joke? Maybe. But from an artist who once rhymed "wonderful view" with "tiramisu," we wouldn't be surprised if Macklemore really is a magician now. Nobody's thought about Macklemore since 2014, anyway — it's not like he has much to lose.